Coming out of the set, Zhang Ran and Han Shanping found a nearby restaurant, asked for a private room, and sat in it and chatted. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After chatting for a while, Han Shanping began to say his purpose: "Next year is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and we in China Film will make a tribute film "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic of China", which is a key film finalized by the Literature and Art Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the Central 1 and the Film Bureau of the General Administration, we are ready to make a large-scale epic movie and invite stars from all walks of life to join, whether it is the protagonist or the supporting role, or even the dragon will invite first-line stars to star, creating a luxurious audio-visual feast!"

Zhang Ran remembers the movie "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" very clearly, indeed, just like Han Shanping depicted, the movie is really full of stars, with a total of 187 big star cameos, and an average of one big star plays a trick every 43 seconds, which can be called the most powerful main theme movie in the history of Chinese film!

The movie was released during the National Day in 09 and finally achieved a box office of more than 400 million, which can be said to be an unprecedented success!

It's just that from the perspective of the movie itself, "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic" lacks the shaping of characters, and it lacks enough contradictions and conflicts, it is completely a running account, and it is good to say that mediocrity is good, and the standard is very low, Zhang Ran is really not interested in such a movie.

It's just that Han Shanping has come to the door, and a cameo is inevitable.

Zhang Ran smiled and said: "I definitely support the 60th anniversary of the National Day, let me make a cameo, right? No problem! Arrange a role for me, when you will shoot you tell me, I will definitely be on call!"

Han Shanping looked at Zhang Ran and said with a strange expression: "I'm looking for other people to be cameos, it's not just a cameo to find you, I want you to co-direct with me!"

Zhang Ran was stunned, then waved his hand and said: "No, no, Mr. Han, I have my own film scheduling plan, the script was written by me during the Olympic Games, and now that the Olympics are over, I am already working on this matter, where is the kung fu to direct "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic"!"

Han Shanping looked at Zhang Ran and said with a smile: "You don't have to stare at the audience, you only need to direct a few scenes, the main thing is to hang your name." The leaders of the Propaganda Department of China 1 have said that our domestic director Zhang Ran is famous overseas, and it is better to promote it overseas under your name!"

Zhang Ran is a little painful, Mr. Han, you are smashing my signboard, people look at it, I rely on it, how did Zhang Ran shoot a running account, it will definitely be a bad comment! It's just that the leaders above have spoken, or the leaders in charge of the propaganda mouth, Zhang Ran really can't refuse, so he can only say: "Then it's no problem." You picked a few scenes from the script and handed them to me, and I filmed them in between when I was filming my own movie, what do you think?"

"The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" is a series of stories from the end of the Anti-Japanese War to the eve of the founding of New China in 1949. With so many characters piled up in it, the movie naturally lacks the portrayal of details, plus the narrative is very rushed, and the major events are rushed one after another, and the shooting naturally has the feeling of running an account.

This is a problem brought about by the creativity of the movie, unless the script is subversively changed, it is to resurrect Kurosawa, and it can only be made into a running account, so Zhang Ran is too lazy to make any suggestions.

Han Shanping is very satisfied with this, and with Zhang Ran's help, the success of this movie is even more certain: "Of course you can, I haven't filmed for 18 years, this time Director Zhao personally ordered my general, and I also chased ducks to the shelves." You also know that my level as a director is limited, and I can only hand over the heavy scenes to you, as well as Huang Jianxin!"

Zhang Ran joked with Han Shanping: "This is no problem, but, Mr. Han, what about the cost?"

Han Shanping scolded with a smile: "I don't have a penny, you stinky boy is so rich, and you still care about these cents with me! Besides, this is to celebrate the birthday of the motherland, and you still collect money for your mother's birthday?"

The matter was decided like this, the most important scenes in "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic" were filmed by Zhang Ran, but now the movie is still in the preparatory stage, and there is still a lot of work to be done, and the movie will not be released until the beginning of next year, Zhang Ran does not have to worry about this movie for the time being.

For most of the next half a month, Zhang Ran has been in the crew of "Dragon Group", guiding Yang Qing. On September 24, the first two episodes of "Dragon Group", that is, the first story, were finally filmed.

At this time, the National Day holiday is approaching, and the National Day file is coming. This summer, because of the Peking Olympics, many movies are avoiding the Olympic Games, and the release time is aimed at the golden period of the National Day, including both Chinese blockbusters such as "Painted Skin" and "Keep Talking", as well as foreign blockbusters such as "The Mummy 3" and "Water Whistle and Fog", and the movie "Love Has an Afterlife" co-directed by Yu Feihong and Zhang Jingchu is also in this schedule.

In fact, a love film like "Love Has an Afterlife" is the most suitable for Valentine's Day or Qixi Festival, but this year's Qixi Festival was just opened when the Olympic Games were opened, and it was released at that time, and there would hardly be any attention, and Valentine's Day had to wait until next year, so the film distributor Xingmei finally decided to release it during the National Day.

On the evening of September 25th, "Love Has an Afterlife" held a grand premiere in Beiping Xingmei International Cinema, the premiere was star-studded, in addition to Duan Yihong, Yu Feihong, Zhang Jingchu and several main creators made high-profile appearances, but also attracted He Ping, Zhang Yibai, Wu Jing and other famous directors and celebrities to come to help.

Zhang Ran was undoubtedly the biggest name among the guests, and when he and Zhang Jing first appeared, they were warmly sought after by media reporters. The reporters squeezed forward like a swarm of bees, trying to get the best position, and they kept pressing the shutter with their fingers, and the whole scene clicked constantly, like locusts gnawing at the crops.

Zhang Ran was very easy-going, greeting everyone with a smile, but today he was a supporting role, not here to steal the limelight, and soon floated over like a gust of wind.

After walking the red carpet, Zhang Jingchu pointed to the ginkgo tree model at the entrance and said: "You have read the movie script and know the story of the movie, this is the model of the ginkgo tree in the movie, with a love motto card on it, and the guests should write their understanding of love on it, you can also write it!"

Zhang Ran felt that this activity seemed to be a bit formalistic, but the guest was casual, so he wrote a sentence casually: "Zhang Ran + Zhang Jingchu = love!"

The most touching thing about the whole premiere is undoubtedly the appearance of Professor Li Ranran, Yu Feihong's head teacher at Nortel, and her husband Ma Jingwu, the two elders have been married for nearly 50 years, and they appeared on the red carpet in the finale, which is undoubtedly of great significance for this movie with the theme of "true love is eternal".

Before the official screening of the movie, Yu Feihong chatted with Zhang Ran for a few words: "Director Zhang, it is not easy for me and Jingchu to shoot this drama, you must support us!"

Zhang Ran said seriously: "Yes, yes." I've texted all the students in my class, and everyone has to go to the cinema twice to watch "Love Has an Afterlife" or they all fail at the end of the semester. ”

Yu Feihong saw Zhang Ran pretending to be stupid, looked at him and said directly: "I hope you will support us more in the film arrangement." ”

Zhang Ran touched his nose and said: "I thought that the box office was full of copper smell, and only ordinary people like me paid attention to it!"

Yu Feihong said confidently: "Of course I hope that the box office is good, others invest so much money, I definitely hope that they can recover their costs, besides, the higher the box office, the more audiences will watch it, I think this is a calm and sincere movie, I hope more people can see it!"

There are rules and systems for film scheduling, and it is impossible for Zhang Ran to mess around: "I believe that this is a sincere movie, and I also believe that the movie is good, and I will definitely support it!"

Yu Feihong smiled, there are many blockbusters on the National Day, and the competitors are very strong, with Zhang Ran's words, she is completely relieved.

Soon, the movie officially began to play.

"Love Has an Afterlife" tells a story that can be summed up in one sentence, a ghost under a thousand-year-old ginkgo tree, and tactfully expresses his memories of his past life to the woman he loved in his previous life.

The movie was shot beautifully and sentimentally, and it easily poked the hearts of the female audiences in the venue, and many female viewers were wiping their tears after watching the movie, and the male audience was also embarrassed.

Zhang Jingchu asked expectantly, "What do you think?"

Zhang Randao was not afraid of hitting Zhang Jingchu, and said directly: "It's okay, it's not good, but it's certainly not bad, I told a very simple story in a very ordinary way, and the whole movie was shot fresh and simple, there are very few movies of this style in China." ”

Zhang Jingchu asked, "Then what do you think of the box office?"

Zhang Ran shook his head: "It's not good, let's strive for more than 10 million!"

Zhang Jingchu and Yu Feihong expected the box office of this movie to be 50 million, and when they heard Zhang Ran say this, they couldn't believe their ears: "No, the quality of the movie is obviously very good, and the response of the audience is very good, how can there be so few? Many bad movies have a box office of tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions!"

Zhang Ran did not explain in detail, and said simply: "The quality of the movie cannot be equated with the box office, there are too many factors involved here." If you can figure this out, it's a box office expert!"

After the premiere, Zhang Jingchu wanted to attend the press conference with Yu Feihong and the actors, and Zhang Ran drove home directly.

Zhang Ran knew that "Love Has an Afterlife" would fail miserably at the box office, but he still hoped to help the movie and didn't want the movie to die too miserably. He clicked on his Weibo and wrote: "I participated in the premiere of "Love Has an Afterlife" today, and I think it's good after watching the movie, this is a well-made, rare pure love movie in the mainland, I recommend everyone to watch it."

The cinematography is exquisite, the editing is capable, and the performances of the two main actors are also quite in place. Many people know that mainland movies can't have ghosts, and "Love Has an Afterlife" is one of the few movies that can make ghosts go directly to the screen in recent years, and this is a breakthrough for Chinese films.

But what touched me the most was the sincerity of the film's creator, Yu Feihong spent a lot of effort for this movie and worked hard for this movie for ten years. We often hear how much effort and years have been spent on a certain work, but these are often a propaganda ploy and an exaggeration. But ten years of sharpening a sword is appropriate for this movie. The preparation of the film went through ten years of ups and downs, and all kinds of hardships in the middle, and finally condensed into this work. Whether the audience likes it or not, there is no way not to admit the sincerity of the movie.

In recent years, the Chinese film market has developed rapidly, and filmmakers have become more and more impetuous. From this point of view, "Love Has an Afterlife" is a respectable work. ”

Shortly after the Olympics, Zhang Ran's prestige is at its peak, and his Weibo is a hot spot on the Internet, and every time he releases a new meager post, he can get a lot of comments and retweets, killing many superstars and Weibo celebrities.

After Zhang Ran's long Weibo was posted, in less than two hours, it received more than 10,000 comments and retweets, among which there were many celebrities who retweeted, and it can be said that most of the entertainment industry has forwarded it.

Zhang Jingchu was very happy when she returned home and saw that half of the entertainment industry was reposting the Weibo of "Love Has an Afterlife", with so many stars helping to promote, the box office of the movie will definitely not be as miserable as Zhang Ran said!